I live in the north east of Scotland, just outside Aberdeen and do most of my riding in the trails round about Deeside, Cairgorms, Donside etc. I am wondering about buying a GPS but dont want to spend a lot of money. Typical Aberdonian I hear you say. The main things I want to be able to do are, 1) to waymark the routes that I am cycling, without having to manually mark waypoints as I am cycling. 2)Save said tracks so I can download onto laptop and google earth etc. and 3) Load the tracks back on or conceivably load other tracks onto the unit to keep me right for routes which are new.

All seems pretty straighforward I hear you guys say so what is the best and most cost effective way for me to achieve this, given that I am not bothered about fancy displays or any other fancy gadgetry just a means for me to plot and save routes.

Any help would be appreciated, feel like a bit of a luddite at the mo.